William Jones

William Jones (1760-6 September 1831) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-PA 1) from 4 March 1801 to 3 March 1803 (succeeding Robert Waln), US Secretary of the Navy from 19 January 1813 to 1 December 1814 (succeeding Paul Hamilton and preceding Benjamin Williams Crowninshield), Secretary of the Treasury from 9 May 1813 to 8 February 1814 (succeeding Albert Gallatin and preceding George W. Campbell), and President of the Second Bank of the United States from 7 January 1817 to 25 January 1819.

Biography
William Jones was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1760, and he fought at the battles of Trenton and Princeton during the American Revolutionary War. He later became a successful merchant in Charleston and Philadelphia, and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1801 to 1803 before serving as the wartime Secretary of the Navy from 1813 to 1814 (supporting coastal defense, commerce raiding on the high seas, and the successful Great Lakes campaign of the War of 1812), as Secretary of the Treasury from 1813 to 1814, and as President of the Second Bank of the United States from 1817 to 1819, when he returned to private business. He died in 1831.